AWS Bites

69. Do you know what’s in your cloud account?


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Do you know what horrors lurk in your AWS account? Aren't you afraid of the murky waters of an old and cluttered AWS account, which might be rife with security risks and other unexpected dark forces?

Fear no more!

In this episode, we share our best tips to discover every resource in your neglected AWS account and, whether you decide to clean things up, delete what's needed, or just put some order into the mess, we give you some practical suggestions on what kind of tools or services you could you to achieve your task. 

Throughout the episode, we reveal some of the secrets and hidden potential of AWS Config, Resource Explorer, Resource Groups, and CloudTrail.

Finally, We talk about third-party services and open-source projects such as Resmo, Steampipe, and CloudQuery, which can even span the realms of AWS and help you with other clouds and services.

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AWS Bites is sponsored by fourTheorem, an AWS Consulting Partner offering training, cloud migration, and modern application architecture.

In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

  • AWS Config: https://aws.amazon.com/config/
  • AWS Resource Explorer: https://aws.amazon.com/resourceexplorer/
  • AWS Resource Groups: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ARG/latest/userguide/resource-groups.html
  • AWS Tag Editor: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/tag-editor/latest/userguide/tagging.html
  • CloudTrail: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-user-guide.html
  • Resmo https://www.resmo.com/
  • Steampipe: https://steampipe.io/
  • CloudQuery: https://www.cloudquery.io/
  • Our previous episode: "How do you move away from the management console?": https://awsbites.com/11-how-do-you-move-away-from-the-management-console/
  • cloud-nuke: https://github.com/gruntwork-io/cloud-nuke
  • aws-nuke: https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke
  • terraformer: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
  • Former2: https://github.com/iann0036/former2
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